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I played my first round of golf for the year on Tuesday. Got my first sunburn too! Last year I found out that Jacob is about as bad at golf as I am so we decided that we'd hit a few every couple weeks. For our first round this year we attended a pervious concrete seminar at South Riding Golf Club in South Riding. The seminar was about an hour...then we got lunch, hamburger, hot dogs, noodle salad and potato salad. And then...the golf. I will start off by saying that this was the first golf I had played of any sort this year. When I teed off at 1, I hadn't so much as been to the driving range. The course was soaked due to the rains we had the 2 days prior, but all in all in pretty good shape. We got carts w/ GPS info which was nice, but the course still could not have been more vague. The scorecards had no yardage or picture of the hole (yes, it was on the GPS, but what if we were walking?) nor were any of the holes marked. Perhaps this is common at country clubs, I don't know as I'm usually on a public course, but I found it strange. I think I lost 4 of my own balls, including that first tee shot. I began snagging balls that I found to use because I didn't care and I didn't want to use up ALL of my golf balls that I had brought. Needless to say Jacob and I didn't play all that well and our partners were not all that good either. It was a best ball tournament and we finished 2nd to last (only b/c 1 group didn't check in) with a 77, or +5. We were 12 strokes off the pace. I had one good shot on the day and that was on the longest drive hole where I hit my whopper of the day at 225. I don't usually use a driver and don't have a decent one of my own, so I will consider this shot a great success. All in all, a pretty good day and way to spend a day of work.

Hopefully next time I play a bit better. I'm not good in general, but I'm not as bad as displayed on Tuesday, I couldn't stay down on the ball and kept topping it. I think that I was forgetting to keep my knees bent. Afterwards, we grabbed some z-pizza at which they insisted that they had given us the thai pizza, when upon inspection was obviously pepperoni, then they made one of the pizza's without cheese, which we got to keep, and then they finally got it right...free food, even without cheese, is worth the sitting around.